Editor-in-Chief, Buildings & Cities: a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary OA built environment journal. Find me on BlueSky
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23 Dec 2025
"Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate"
Pleased to see the Guardian article on a novel research paper in @BuildingsCities:
doi.org/10.5334/bc.671
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14 Nov 2025
Today, I joined 500 researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call.
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10 Oct 2025
New paper! Developing criteria for effective building-sector commitments in nationally determined contributions
This study addresses the need for a consensus-driven framework to define and assess effective building sector commitments in NDCs.
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11 Sep 2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: MMC and the Future of Housing
Special issue of Buildings & Cities
Abstracts due 14.11.25
This SI examines the claims, processes, dynamics, outcomes associated w MMC for housing.
Full details: buildingsandcities.org/calls…
#MMC #housing #offsite
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4 Sep 2025
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Calling all built environment PhD students: 2025 VIDEO CHALLENGE
You are invited to create a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research. The theme is “WHY IT MATTERS”
DEADLINE: 14.10.2025 noon GMT. #PhD #doctoral
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26 Jul 2025
New commentary! Lessons from Disaster Recovery: Build Better Before
Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy.
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1 Jul 2025
Calling all built environment PhD students:
Enter the "2025 Video Challenge".
Create a 2-minute video to tell the world about the significance of your PhD research.
Kudos, recognition, cash prizes.
buildingsandcities.org/video… @BuildingsCities
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Richard Lorch retweeted
2 Jun 2025
Understanding Urban Climate Interactions
RESEARCH PATHWAY: personal reflections on a career in research
Geographer and climatologist Gerald Mills (University College Dublin) reflects on a long research career investigating urban climate. buff.ly/0nTf3vc
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Richard Lorch retweeted
23 May 2025
New commentary! Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab
How can a self-organised initiative in an informal settlement foster community engagement and confront social issues?
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Richard Lorch retweeted
15 May 2025
New commentary! Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges
Thomas Lützkendorf explains how the research community has helped to change the climate change policy landscape for the construction and real estate sectors. buff.ly/OiPnTc1
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13 May 2025
Is gentrification a crime?
Ian Cooper argues that greater protection needs to be provided to built environment and to the people who live there to avoid their displacement.
Important commentary in @BuildingsCities
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3 Mar 2025
New Commentary! Reframing Sustainable Construction
Why a new approach to sustainable development is needed.
Alice Moncaster (University of the West of England) reflects on the lack of progress in sustainable development over several decades. buff.ly/4il9ph1
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Richard Lorch retweeted
30 Apr 2025
News! Buildings & Cities is pleased to announce that in 2024 our peer reviewed articles were viewed and downloaded 523,612 times from the journal's website.
We hope you will all continue to support us and enjoy reading our 2025 volume buff.ly/Vu6wnbQ
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15 Apr 2025
New CFP:
"Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making"
Special issue of @BuildingsCities
How should we respond to the increasing risks resulting from climate change? Who owns those risks & responsibilities?
Abstracts due: 9 June 2025
Full details:
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25 Mar 2025
Increasing vegetation and green & blue spaces in cities can support both mitigation & adaptation, while enhancing biodiversity & ecological health. @MPedersenZari explains why nature-based solutions #NbS must be a vital part of urban planning & design bit.ly/4iX6Cvz
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Richard Lorch retweeted
20 Mar 2025
📢 Exciting News! 📢
From now on, all updates from Buildings & Cities will be shared on Bluesky!
Join us and stay connected: bceditors.bsky.social
See you there! 💙
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Richard Lorch retweeted
11 Mar 2025
Our latest #research shows that #visual-ethnography can uncover the lived experiences of local communities as a source of societal data on not only climate stressors but also a climate solutions imagery that contains positive adaptation stories. Follow: bristoluniversitypressdigita…
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4 Mar 2025
New Commentary! Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonisation
How building research can harness AI for mass decarbonisation
Jenn McArthur reflects on how the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming building decarbonisation research. buff.ly/4kh6esF
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14 Feb 2025
Special issue! Health Inequalities and Indoor Environments
There is compelling evidence that aspects of indoor environments can adversely affect health, but the role of indoor environments in health inequalities is less understood. buff.ly/4fKv6Xh
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24 Feb 2025
Calls for Papers！The Complexity of Disaster Reconstruction
Guest Editor: Paolo Tombesi (EPFL)
Deadline for abstracts: 24 MARCH 2025 (noon GMT)
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